{"id":563,"date":"2009-02-05T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2009-02-24T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:24:44","slug":"ski-instructor-87-at-home-on-slopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Ski instructor, 87, at home on slopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-564\" title=\"ski-instructor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/ski-instructor-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"ski-instructor\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>As a boy in the 1920s, Paul Goszyk skied the snow-blanketed mountains surrounding his home in Ustron, Poland.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aa\">His parents had six children and couldn&#8217;t afford to buy him skis, so his father crafted a pair from wooden boards and made poles using two sticks.<\/p>\n<p>Goszyk and his friends used homemade gear to scale nearby peaks, race down forest trails and jump off a ramp built for their town&#8217;s youth ski club.<\/p>\n<p>That was before 1939, when Germany invaded Poland &#8212; before Goszyk fought against the Nazis during World War II, and before he was captured and enslaved for five years. Through it all, his love for skiing endured&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com\/article\/20090205\/NEWS01\/902050322\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a boy in the 1920s, Paul Goszyk skied the snow-blanketed mountains surrounding his home in Ustron, Poland. His parents had six children and couldn&#8217;t afford to buy him skis, so his father crafted a pair from wooden boards and made poles using two sticks. Goszyk and his friends used homemade gear to scale nearby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}